Innovation Architect Job Description
Innovation architect
provides a depth and breadth of expertise in establishing, populating, and maintaining enterprise architecture repositories and data asset catalogs.
Innovation Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Partner with Products teams, Information Security and other Business entities to perform functional requirements review and architecture design for Mobile, Chip, Contactless/NFC, IoT products and services
Create solid end to end designs for proposed solutions
Maintain deep technical and business knowledge of various market segments and of best-of-breed Cloud technologies
Operates with limited supervision to achieve annual or project goals
Contribute to the business case development for proposed projects
Work with business to translate regulatory requirements for IT delivery
Serve as an expert resource supporting areas, processes, or technologies in Regulatory and Safety
Is it unique or sufficiently novel to create market differentiation and what is the potential market for buyers?
What do we need to do to implement the idea?
What is the cost and how would we do this taking into account current LR capabilities and structures?
Innovation Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Innovation Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, ITIL, TOGAF, V3, PSPO, PAL, PMP, PMI, ALM, III
Education for Innovation Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the innovation architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Engineering, Business, Education, Mathematics, Information Systems, Technology, Software Engineering, Design
Skills for Innovation Architect
Desired skills for innovation architect include:
Database and SQL
New areas very quickly
On-premise SAP HCM Solutions
Breadth
Card payment industry and Visa products in particular
Data management
Depth of a relevant technical nature
Enterprise application architecture
IoT
Micro-Service architecture experience
Desired experience for innovation architect includes:
How will we measure the success of this idea, the KPI, the return on investment
Learn and understand LR’s Marine and Offshore business strategic markets’ priorities, liaising with Strategic Marketing and Strategic Research Labs and gaining understanding of Local Markets Strategic priorities
Complete the Ideas Qualification Process, scoring ideas from the Ideas Pool and deciding which ideas show highest potential to generate returns to LR and could be moved into Business Model Pilot generation stage
Write down the first draft of the Value Proposition that aligns with the Business Model Pilot for the ideas that generate a production activity in the Innovation Lab
Hand over the Business Model Pilot and Draft Value Proposition to the Innovation Owner within the Lab, securing understanding of the production activity the Idea triggers, supporting the Innovation Owner to produce the Scope of Activity within the Lab
Collect information from the Innovation Owner and write down the final Value Proposition from the Lab Projects
Innovation Architect Examples
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Innovation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of innovation architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for innovation architect
- Collect feedback from the Clients adopting the New Value Proposition and report back to the Innovation Lab Master
- For successful New Value Propositions, prepare and perform the Hand Over of the New Value Proposition to Promotional Marketing and to Technical Governance when appropriate
- Knowledge of Marine and/or Offshore markets or similar
- Generating value propositions that give a clear return on investment including
- Investigating and understanding innovative ideas and how these can be turned into a product/service that buyers within the Shipping industry will want to buy
- Working together with idea generators and stakeholders - Local and/or Global
- Measuring success of innovations
- How will this generate value for LR and clients?
- What do we need to do to implement this idea?
- Learn and understand LR’s Marine and Offshore business strategic markets’ priorities, liaising with Strategic Marketing and Strategic Research Labs and gaining an understanding of Local Markets Strategic priorities
Qualifications for innovation architect
- You have proven experience in managing teams or projects in cross-functional international organizations preferably across multiple sites
- Defining, architecting and designing drive-train and energy/power conversion systems for maximum efficiency
- In structured and simple way addressing economic and technically trade-offs across many relevant engineering disciplines
- Guiding innovation and idea generation based on business needs and commercial foundation
- Technical Scouting in relevant areas with suppliers, Technology Partners and Research Institutions
- Wind turbine industry knowledge is an advantage but not a requirement
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Innovation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an innovation architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for innovation architect
- Defining and deploying short-term (<2 years) roadmaps for digital propositions and indicating longer-term (2-4 years) expectations on developments within his/her application area
- Defining the architecture to the level that it can be realized by project teams and decomposing the architecture in modular, easy-to-maintain and scalable subsystems that can meet future requirements
- Co-responsible for maintaining and updating the knowledge in the architect team, with respect to innovation and new technical developments, within the area of smart connected products
- Determining the required hardware and software interfaces in close co-operation with experts and contributing to the definition of future platforms
- Ensuring the consistency and lean integration of quality processes focusing on continuous improvement, and a customer centric and agile way of working
- Driving an accepted implementation of architecture, by explaining, convincing, involving of and cooperating with relevant competences
- Driving the acquisition process and supporting program management
- Supporting business development by identifying and qualifying technical opportunities
- Architect, design, develop and implement reference implementations and proofs of concept to validate new payment and security technologies, product form factors, specifications and standards using expert industry knowledge and independent judgment
- Create, design, develop and showcase proofs of concept of innovative new payment and security technologies and product form factors using expert industry knowledge and independent judgment
Qualifications for innovation architect
- You are structured, creative, open-minded and self-motivated
- You are inquisitive
- You challenge and enjoy to be challenged
- You are decisive and can drive and shape tasks
- You are customer-oriented and have the ability to understand the complete business value chain
- It's natural for you to listen, collaborate, share knowledge, lead, guide plus advise your colleagues and you manage by the 80-20 rule
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Innovation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of innovation architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for innovation architect
- Engage in all phases of the development life-cycle, incl
- Collaborate with business line and IT executives to understand mid- and long-term business strategies and issues
- Ensure that architecture activities are aligned with the Bank's priorities
- Lead, coach and advise senior IT architects
- Lead and engage the IT executive committee in validating the technology strategy and orientations
- Establish architecture guidelines for the different IT areas
- Establish and discuss the Bank's technological orientations
- Establish solid relationships with your peers and decision-makers at the Bank
- Act as the guardian of the business capability model
- Establish and serve as the guardian of the Bank's technology roadmap
Qualifications for innovation architect
- Methodical, yet simple and pragmatic approach to diesign and way of working
- Ability to translate complex concepts into manageable, actionable sub projects
- Fact and model based decision making ability based on a cooperative approach
- Comfortable with managing and facilitating diversity of thought to allow for best design trade-offs
- Experience in business operations is a plus (managing costs, driving contract negotiations)
- Fluency in English is a must, fluency in other languages, particularly South African local languages
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Innovation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for an innovation architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for innovation architect
- Propose a governance framework (methods, processes, practices and tools)
- Monitor banking industry trends and best practices
- Construct an innovation pipeline to track opportunities, technologies and trends
- Builds a strong understanding of common innovation discovery and production techniques
- Captures learnings from each project
- Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, ), as appropriate
- Role does not require the supervision of any full-time employees
- Contribute to the identification of potential solutions through consumer driven “problem solving” approach, gathering and analyzing market data, consumer intelligence, competitive information, internal capabilities and capacity
- DevOps and experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Graylog, Jira
- External consulting resources (market data, industry information)
Qualifications for innovation architect
- You have in-depth Systems Engineering and modelling understanding
- You are a leader with strong cross functional leadership skills that secure the build-up of commitment and trustworthy relationships with internal and external partners in a global environment
- You have a high level of drive and are able to challenge the existing while maintaining focus on deliverables
- You are able dive deep in technical detail when and as needed while maintaining a strategic and business focus
- Very good skills in written and verbal communication
- Develop and broadly communicate an overall application strategy and goals for the Domain – including identification of champion and divest assets, reduction of application and data complexity and lowering of unit costs while maintaining support for business capabilities
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Innovation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of innovation architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for innovation architect
- Strong experience with relevant technologies, including Node.JS+ Javascript
- Familiar with Scrum/Agile development methodology
- Framing up customer engagements to drive the development of applicable innovation models and potential new service model offerings
- Review customer's architecture strategy to ensure adequacy
- Evaluate and recommend architecture changes based on technology and business trends
- Provide strategic perspective and alignment, lead governance efforts and architecture reviews, and contribute to various methodologies in use
- Provides strategic consultancy support to clients, Senior Technical Specialists and other technical architects in all aspects of enabling technologies to meet business needs
- Identifies problems and issues affecting multiple areas and facilitates their resolution
- Cognizant of and applies industry standard problem-solving tools and techniques appropriate to area of specialization
- Consistently suggests possible alternative approaches or points of view
Qualifications for innovation architect
- Accountable for the quality of the meta-data in the application inventory repository for the corresponding application portfolio
- Develop investment plans/scenarios/business cases for driving the domain towards a target state with higher value
- Develop scorecards to ensure that the domain tracks the desired application portfolio characteristics noted previously
- Collaborate with roadmap owners, big bet owners, chief architects in refining roadmaps and plans to expedite the domain goals of creating or consolidating the champion assets and retiring the divest assets
- Work with GTI,AD teams and Finance to accomplish the orderly decommission of assets including removal of allocated costs associated with decommissioned applications where justified
- Create roadmap and plan to guide and communicate status, risks, issues for the domain’s application and database instance portfolio optimization